472 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Tenilfisula. 



I have not seen fruit of this, and nbthiii* has been recorded about 

 it except Jack's statement that is roundisli and becomes very dark- 

 coloured. The long, laxly-branched, quite glabrous panicles make the 

 species easy of recognition. 



8. Mangifera pentandra, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 14. A tree. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, the edges 

 snb-undulate, the base slightly cuiieate or almost rounded, the nerves 

 as in M. indica, but the reticulations between them finer and more 

 distinct on both surfaces ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; petioles 

 •4 to '6 in. Panicles as in M. indica, but more densely hairy. Sepals 5, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, coarsely pubescent outside. Petals slightly longer 

 tlian the sepals and similar in shape, 3-nerved in front to the middle, 

 glahrous. Stamens 5, much shorter than the petals, unequal, seated 

 upon the thick lobed disc, all fei'tile. Ovary smooth, style sub-terminal. 

 Fruit unknown. Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 198. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1095 : Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 471. 



This species is very imperfectly known. Both in its leaves and 

 inflorescence it much resembles M. indica, L. ; but the flowers have five 

 stamens, the sepals are bioader and more coarsely pubescent, the petals 

 are shorter and are situated nearer the edge of the disc. The bases 

 of the leaves are also less cuneate than in M. indica. According to 

 Maingay, the petals of this are yellowish-white with yellow-brown 

 edo-es. The Malay name of it is, he states, " Man ploni." 



9. Mangifkka indica, Linn. Spec. PI. 290. A spreading tree 20 

 to 30 feet high, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves 

 coriaceous, narrowly oblong, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, usually 

 acute or acuminate, rarely sub-acute, the margins sometimes undulate, 

 the base cuneate; main nerves 12 to- 20 pairs, spreading, curving, 

 slightly prominent on both surfaces when dry ; length 5 to 10 in., 

 breadtb 1*5 to Sin. ; petiole "5 to 1 in. or even 2 in. Panicles longer 

 than the leaves, axillary or terminal, with many spreading branches, 

 many-flowered, minutely tomentose or pubescent, rarely glabrescent ; 

 bracteoles ovate, small. Flowers '2 in. in diam., monoecious, on short 

 thick pedicels, yellowish. Sepals ovate, concave, pubescent ontsidCf 

 shorter than the petals. Petals oblong, sub-acute, glabrous, the inner face 

 witli 3 stout nerves. Stamen 1, rising from between two of the 5 lobes of 

 the fleshy disc, filament subulate. Ovary obliquely ovoid, glabrous. 

 Britpe '[urge, fleshy, obliquely pyriform or sub-ovoid, sub-compressed, vary- 

 ing in leno-th from 3 or 4 in. and in some of the cultivated forms as much 

 as 12 inches ; stone with a fibrous coat, very hard. DO. Pi'od. II, 63 : 

 Blnrae Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 193 : Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 641 ; W. and A. 

 Prod. 170 ; Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 162 ; Wall. Cat. 8487 (excl. D. G. and 



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